Improved cabinet-hook



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Letters .Patent No. 91,369, dated June l5, i869.

IMPRovED cABINnT-Hoox.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent: and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

' struction of the hooks, such as are used for cabinet and similar purposes, for securing doors, Sto., and with a screw-eye, are commonly called, in trade, hooks and eyes. Heretofore, these hooks have been'forrned flat upon one side, and oval upon the other or outside, and when used, as they commonly are,'upon varnished or polished furniture, the flat surface, by frequent moving, soon scratches and disgures the furniture.

.Another difficulty in the use of these hooks arises from the fact that it is necessary to make them right and left-hand, necessitating a complication of machinery for theirmanuiacture, and a greater stock for the dealer, in order to meet the demands for right and left.hand hooks.

By my invention, these diiiiculties and objections are overcome, andthe invention consists in forming the hook double convex, so that the hook maybe used either side ont, that is, either right or left-hand, and by this peculiar form, is not liable to scratch. or injure the surface of the furniture like the ordinary dat hook.

To enable others to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

I form one die the same as is now used for the outer surface of the common hook, and the other die I form correspondingly convex, so that a section of the hook will be as shown in fig. 2, drawing nearly to an edge, so that the bearing of the hook will be buta single point alongr the surface of the hook, and thus not liable to scratch or injure the surface of the furniture, and both sides being the same, the hook may be used either right or left, the screw-hole a being countersunk from both sides. In addition to these advantages, is the fact that the hook thus formed is stronger than the old, inasmuch as the same quantity of metal forms f the hook thicker at its centre, than in the old construction. 'Ihe eye for this hook is the same as the common hook. l

' Having, therefore, thus fully described my invention,

VVhatI claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-describedhook, struck up from sheetmetal, so as to form a donbleconrex surface, as and for the purpose specified, as an improved article of manufacture.

J. B. SARGENT.

Witnesses:

J onN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBITs. 

